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  • ttabbal

    • Jul 2005
    • 6

    Audible .aa tags?

    In DMC I get a message saying that .aa files don't support tags. That's probably true in the case of ID3 etc., but I know there are tags in the files I have. They are located at the top of the file and are ACSII text with headers. I used a HEX editor to find them. Would it be possible to have DMC read them in and preserve at least title and author into the converted file? It would be nice if it could see them in the explorer integration as well.

    As a side question, is there a 3rd party plugin API available? I am a programmer and could probably throw this together in an hour or so.

    The format is:

    title<title string><NULL>
    author<author string><NULL>

    There is other info in there, and much of it I haven't tried to decode. If you just scanned the first few K it would be easy to pick out the desired info. There is even a plot synopsis in there, but I don't know if there is anywhere to put something like that in ID3 or Apple's format. I can provide a snippet if anyone else is interested in this.
  • ttabbal

    • Jul 2005
    • 6

    #2
    Re: Audible .aa tags?

    Okay.. not much interest it seems. Is it possible to send both [infile] and [outfile] with the powerpack's "run after each conversion" setting? I could write a quick tag until to transfer them if I could do that. The documentation seems to suggest only 1 is possible.

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    • Spoon
      Administrator
      • Apr 2002
      • 44633

      #3
      Re: Audible .aa tags?

      I am interested and will implement this, but I cannot do it in the next 2 weeks at least as the next Sveta version has priority.
      Spoon
      www.dbpoweramp.com

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      • ttabbal

        • Jul 2005
        • 6

        #4
        Re: Audible .aa tags?

        Originally posted by Spoon
        I am interested and will implement this, but I cannot do it in the next 2 weeks at least as the next Sveta version has priority.

        Thanks Spoon!! I tried to do a little app that would rename the files with the tag values, but they use invalid characters that I would like to preserve.

        I do have Java code that can read the artist and title tags though, if that would help you. Nothing much to it really, I just read the first 1K of file into a RAM buffer, convert to a String and use indexOf and subString to get the values.

        I'll keep an eye out on the forum for the update.

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